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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fast-import: disallow "merge $itself" command
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:22:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120627212231.GM12774@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340818825-13754-4-git-send-email-divanorama@gmail.com>

Dmitry Ivankov wrote:

> "merge $itself" may be used to create commits with previous branch tip
> being repeated as n-th parent or even moved from being 1-st to be just
> n-th. This is not a documented use case and doesn't look like a common
> one.
[...]
> Just deny "merge $itself" for now. It was a bit broken and btw "from
> $itself" was and is a forbidden command too.

Lovely.  Thanks for a clear patch and clear explanation.

For what it's worth, this one is
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

I'll think more about the other two and get back to you.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-27 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-27 17:40 [PATCH/RFC v2 0/3] fast-import: disallow empty branches as parents Dmitry Ivankov
2012-06-27 17:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] fast-import: do not write null_sha1 as a merge parent Dmitry Ivankov
2012-06-27 21:25   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-24 19:30   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-27 17:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] fast-import: allow "merge $null_sha1" command Dmitry Ivankov
2012-06-27 21:33   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-27 22:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-27 23:39     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-23  1:28       ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-27 17:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] fast-import: disallow "merge $itself" command Dmitry Ivankov
2012-06-27 21:22   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-07-24 19:40   ` Jonathan Nieder

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